Alice in Wonderland Vs Midsummer Nights Dream: Dreams
According to the Oxford dictionary, dreams are a series of thoughts, images and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. A person can experience many different types of dreams, whether it is nightmares, daydreams, or fantasies. In fantasy texts there has been one commonality, the characters indulge in dreams in order to achieve something they have greatly desired. In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he constructs a sort of dream world where characters get mixed up through their dream states which is conceived through the love potion. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass allow the protagonist, Alice, to journey through her chaotic dream world in order to achieve what she ultimately desires. Both novels question how strongly the characters want to achieve their ultimate desires by risking what is unknown. In Shakespeare’s Woods and Carroll’s Wonderland, they create an unstable reality where fantasy aspects create confusion. The characters are faced with the reality of whether or not they ultimately are satisfied of their goals, if they were reached. In both Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass the process of dreaming plays a fundamental function in opposing rationale to accomplish goals, finding meaning in an unstable, parallel world which as a conclusion allows the character to make sense of their journeys when faced with reality. The subconscious state of dreaming allows one to defy logic and order to by any means achieve their desires. In both A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, each character is faced with the decision if their goal is worth risking for the unknown. When Hermia’s father Egeus does not allow Hermia to be with Lysander, her true love, the two lovers devise a plan to escape so they can be free and live their life together. Lysander and Hermia enter the woods to search